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On Mar 6, 2014, at 7:13 AM, clutton <clutton@zoho.com> wrote:

> Hi lists.
>=20
> I'm porting a GNU macchanger to the FreeBSD. Everything has almost =
done,
> except restoring the mac to the original one.
>=20
> The Linux users can exploit ioctl with SIOCETHTOOL pointing to a =
proper
> ifreq(ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR), I have no idea how to do this using FreeBSD,
> is it even possible?

I=92d check the source for ifconfig.

	ifconfig ep0 link 1:2:3:4:5:6

does the trick=85

Warner=